Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae
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problemHike and Hitch
Fifteen students had to travel 60 miles. They could use a car, which could only carry 5 students. As the car left with the first 5 (at 40 miles per hour), the remaining 10 commenced hiking along the road (at 4 miles per hour)... -
problemSpecial Sums and Products
Find some examples of pairs of numbers such that their sum is a factor of their product. eg. 4 + 12 = 16 and 4 × 12 = 48 and 16 is a factor of 48. -
problemAround and Back
A cyclist and a runner start off simultaneously around a race track each going at a constant speed. The cyclist goes all the way around and then catches up with the runner. He then instantly turns around and heads back to the starting point where he meets the runner who is just finishing his first circuit. Find the ratio of their speeds. -
problemHot Pursuit
I added together the first 'n' positive integers and found that my answer was a 3 digit number in which all the digits were the same... -
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problemSquare Pizza
Can you show that you can share a square pizza equally between two people by cutting it four times using vertical, horizontal and diagonal cuts through any point inside the square? -
problemSemi-Square
What is the ratio of the area of a square inscribed in a semicircle to the area of the square inscribed in the entire circle? -
problemChocolate Maths
Pick the number of times a week that you eat chocolate. This number must be more than one but less than ten. Multiply this number by 2. Add 5 (for Sunday). Multiply by 50... Can you explain why it works?